A primary school has been thrown into special measures after pupils told inspectors that bullying incidents were not effectively tackled.

Badock's Wood Primary in Southmead has now been rated Inadequate in nearly all departments – the lowest possible outcome – after a two-day inspection in November.

The report, published on Tuesday, showed the school was failing in every category, including leadership, management, teaching, behaviour, safeguarding and outcomes.

The four inspectors spoke to parents ahead of the inspection, and said too many parents were "unhappy" with the education and care the school was providing.

In their report, the inspectors said the leaders, managers, and governors have all "failed to halt the decline" and had an "overgenerous view" on the effectiveness of the school.

The current plan for improvement is also weak, and leaders and governors failed to hold teachers to account for the quality of their work.

The school was last in special measures in March 2010, but had been steadily improving and was rated Good by Ofsted in December 2012.

Poor leadership and management

The curriculum is inadequate, Ofsted inspectors decided, and children were not learning a range of subjects with "sufficient depth".

Parents also were said to have mixed views of the school.

The report read: "A significant proportion of those spoken to or who responded to Ofsted's online questionnaire, Parent View, raised concerns about the quality of education and care their children are receiving.

"Governors have not ensured that leaders provide pupils with a high-quality education. They have not held leaders to account for the decline in standards since the previous inspection."

Arrangements for safeguarding the children were also not effective, they concluded.

Inadequate teaching

Teaching was not good enough, and progress in reading, writing and maths – the key subjects – was inadequate.

They said teachers had not expected enough of their pupils, and had not received clear guidance on checking the progress of the pupils.

"Teachers do not have a deep understanding of how pupils learn," the inspectors wrote.

Bad behaviour

Pupils told inspectors while teachers had tried to tackle bad behaviour and bullying, it does not always happen.

Inspectors said there were a number of incidents of unsuitable behaviour that were not spotted or tackled by staff, and it had a "negative impact on learning".

Students also had "mixed views" about their schools.

Despite having good relationship with the staff, they described incidents of bullying at the school, and said while staff try to help them, the bullying "does not always stop".

Leaders also recorded incidents where physical restraints had to be used on pupils, but they failed to analyse the incidents well enough to spot patterns in behaviour.

Exclusions had risen significantly, and the percentage of pupils with persistent absence was increasing – in fact, attendance we "significantly below" national average.

Inspectors also said play times were "not always positive experiences" for the pupils and the school's work to promote personal welfare was "inadequate".

Outcomes

Not good enough, it can be summarised. There are small improvements in reading, but pupils have limited reading materials.

Writing is particularly poor, and maths is "not good enough" for all groups, inspectors said.

Disadvantaged pupils were not making good enough progress, and the most able students were not encouraged to produce work of a consistently high standard.

Overall

Urgent improvements are needed, with inspectors expected to keep a close eye on developments at the Southmead school.

The Early Year provision is rated as Requires Improvement and there was year-on-year improvement in outcomes there.

The attached Children's Centre is inspected separately.

Headteacher Zak Willis said: " Naturally, the staff and governors are deeply disappointed by the outcome of the recent Ofsted inspection.

"However, we have and will continue to work tirelessly to provide a safe and stimulating learning environment for all our children and their families.

"Since the publication of the report, the local community have been extremely supportive of the school, and leaders have been overwhelmed by the parents' positive response and offers of help and support.

"We are now working hard to ensure that we rapidly bring about the changes required from the report, and look closely at the future direction of the school."